Perceptions of the West by Chinese International Graduate Students before and after Arriving in Canada
Bibliographic record
Abstract
It is evident that China has undergone significant changes over the past few decades because of its reform and opening door policy since the late 1970s. Chinese citizens born in the 1990s grew up in an era of significant historical change. This study examined how has western influence affected the 1990s generation of Chinese students’ understanding of the West before they came to Canada, and how have participants’ understandings about the West been changed by their learning and living experiences in Canada.The findings of this study suggest that participants were unaware of their racialized location when settling in Canada due to the lack of critical discourses of race in their home country. It also reveals that the racism against Chinese students during the Covid-19 pandemic have forced participants to re-evaluate their career trajectories. Another significant finding was that not all Chinese/Asian parents expected their children to be the top student in school as common stereotypes have illustrated; rather, the parents of the selected participants sent and supported their children to study in western countries because they wished their children to have more opportunities and more autonomy in terms of their own career and passions.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.014 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".